Top 313 Florida Quotes

My rock bottom was somewhere in South Florida. I hadn’t eaten for a while; I was super hungry. I remember being by a trash can and seeing someone throw food away. I thought about going over there, opening it up, and eating it.

I actually was there down in Florida when Prince did ‘Purple Rain’ in the rain. He was out there with the guitar goin’. It was absolutely awesome.

I think, gosh, I’m just some kid from Tallahassee, Florida.

I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience.

I remember Green Day came down and played this South Florida club called the Plus Five. I think I was too young to go – I think I was 12 or 13. It was before Green Day were on a major label, but I loved them because they were this band who were a punk band, but they had melody.

I’m going to be the coach at Florida as long as they’ll have me.

Florida sends me a handicap sticker when I’m there. It’s embarrassing. But I can’t walk more than six holes before the whole knee swells up, and then I can’t go anymore.

South Florida was definitely not a bad place for my kids to grow up.

Tom Petty was one of my guitar students; I knew Duane, and Stephen and I had a band. When he left, Bernie Leadon moved to Gainesville. His father was a nuclear physicist who was sent to the University of Florida to start their nuclear research facility, so he and I became friends.

The three books I’ve written in Florida about L.A. are my best takes on the physicality of the city, as far as description goes.

I want everybody in Florida to live the American dream.

We are not exposed to ice much in Florida.

After the 2000 election, which hinged on the results of a recount in Florida, Democrats smeared President George W. Bush as ‘selected, not elected.’

I live in Jacksonville, Florida, but Atlanta always feels like the hometown gig.

From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren’t any opportunities for that.

I grew up in New York City, and I moved to Florida in high school.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren’t comfortable dancing, you weren’t going to get any girls.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

I was lucky playing at Florida and for the Giants. Those were big media markets with lots of cameras around all the time. Maybe that helped me feel more comfortable on camera.

I took my basic training on a golf course in Florida. Then I was on the boxing team. We did some demonstrations, and they put me in a theater one night and wanted me to box. So OK, I came out boxing with a friend – thinking we would just spar around – but the guy walked out, hit me, and knocked me out with one stroke.

Florida has been, and will continue to be, a swing state.

Wherever I go – like, I go to elementary schools, I go to middle schools – wherever it is, if it’s in Florida, if it’s up in New England, I just feel like wherever I am, the kids always go crazy whenever they see me.

I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo – but I never really got the bug until my husband and I went float fishing on the Snake River at Jackson Hole for trout – I’ve been pretty much addicted ever since.

What I like about South Florida is there’s a good quality of life here; the cost of living is much lower than Silicon Valley.

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

The more disgruntled the white people are, the happier they are to see me, that has to be it. I do really well in Boston, I do really well in Cleveland, I do really well in Philly, Jersey, certain parts of Florida. Places where there are really really aggressive white people tend to love me.

When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that’s become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.

Country music has taken so many forms, and I’ve always contended that it does not matter if the casual listener falls in love with country music through Florida Georgia Line, Taylor Swift, Old Crow Medicine Show or whomever – just get in and start digging!

In 2013, after a challenging two years of long-term IV antibiotics and six weeks at a clinic in florida, I received the ‘Star Light’ award from the Lyme Research Alliance for my advocacy and strength to light the way of Lyme disease awareness.

The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists – ‘cavers,’ they prefer to be called.

I’m from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I’m definitely always up for that.

I didn’t start my career or, really, my life before I came to Florida.

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

There’s a lot of work to be done if you’re going to run for president or if you’re going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.

I never had hate for anyone. I helped start ministries in Florida for gay people who wanted a way out.

I’m going to make up my own mind as to what I think is in the best interest of our country and Florida.

If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored.

I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don’t think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.

I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need. I like going to Florida – to Miami and to visit my mom in Fort Meyers.

Florida is not going to implement Obamacare. We are not going to expand Medicaid, and we’re not going to implement exchanges.

I got booed off the stage one time. This was in a University in Florida. The students didn’t know that I had to come back out 6 more times, because I was hosting the show. They just thought that I was a comedian opening the show.

I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I’m very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it’s healthy to get a little bit of color.

It’s a great honor to be an Under Armour All-American and to follow in the fast-growing tradition of this game. It’s a great opportunity to spend the New Year in Florida, which is going to be a little warmer than Buffalo.

The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren’t broken down by city line or county line.

I spent a few years cutting my teeth in the Midwest; I worked for Ring of Honor, then I went down to Florida and relearned everything there.

I’m kind of a beach bum from Florida, and I have a very different style. I like tight-fitting, Euro-fitting clothes, colored pants.

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family’s roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.

I think I’m going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

There’s been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida’s votes don’t count. Given that history, it’s clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.

When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida’s east and west coasts.

I’m really hoping to find something that I feel as connected with as I did with ‘The Florida Project.’ I want to feel that passionate about things that I work on. I don’t want to just act to act.

I’ve often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state’s rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.

It’s interesting in the recruiting process because I have recruits and parents that say, ‘You’re so positive about the other schools!’ And I am, because I had a great experience at LSU. I had a great experience at Auburn. I had a great experience at Florida.

Florida doesn’t need an immigration law.

If you’re going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it’s such a big deal.